Is her secondary to charge slower. Literally that’s the only thing she needed. Like around 50-60% slower, so that it’s not spammable. This would make her balanced and not be able to spam secondary and one shot so much.
I actually think that majority of her nerfs are totally wrong. Mobility nerf is wrong, spread increase on primary is wrong, Disruptor only doing damage is wrong! I think that they should’ve removed the damage from it but kept the slow. Or lower the the damage to like 50 max when inside it but also keep the slow. Disruptor has no purpose now and i really believe that they totally ignored Sojourn’s main problem but nerfed the wrong things!
No, she just needs to not headshot with her railgun alt-fire.
I have no problem with one-shots in general, but every hero who can do it has their entire kit geared towards that capacity, and it’s basically their “thing”. Sojourn is a competent midrange fighter and doesn’t at all skew towards specializing in one-shots. She just gets it for free. Instead of pussyfooting around with whether it’s okay for her to have a one-shot only with mercy pockets or whatever they just need to make it so she can’t. period.
A 60% reduction would mean that her charge rate per shot would be reduced to 2. It would take some 50 shots to reach full charge; something Sojourn would not be able to do with one full clip.
Moreover, 50 shots at her base damage of 9 is 450 damage. She would need to be able to kill two enemy targets or a tank before she could use her charged railgun shot. At 10 damage a shot, it would be 500.
If her accuracy is at 30%, this would mean that her ammo spent to railgun charge shot would be about 14 shots missed per clip. Meaning she would probably run through at least 3 ammo clips before should could run her charged railgun shot. Or average 14 seconds between railgun shots.
Since at 9 damage per shot puts her damage per second at 126, she’s technically weaker in a fire fight than Widowmaker using her primary unscoped shot. This would force Sojourn to either be a better shot than everyone else on the enemy team, or Sojourn would be forced into a critical-hit focused hero. 10 damage a shot would fare better against a variety of different targets, but without any controlled burst, she would still have to contend on being a better shot than the rest of the enemy team, and attentive supports would make it more difficult for her to make those eliminations.
She is a short-ranged fighter. She used to be able to contend at ranges slightly longer than Soldier, but both her and Soldier still compete in the close-range fights. With the new spread, she needs to contend in closer ranges.
Additionally, her damage per second originally kept her from being able to compete against most of other damage-role heroes. 126 damage per second is low for an automatic, or machine-fire. Widowmaker can beat her in a straight fight using only her primary fire. Today, at 140 damage per second, it is still low, but a bit more competitive - however the spread on her shots after 9 dramatically reduces her effective fight range and puts her in more risky situations. Echo can beat her in a straight fight, as can Bastion due to his optimal range being greater than hers. Charged Railgun shots is what keeps her competitive. Without it, she’s basically Mercy with smaller projectiles and a wider spread.
130 damage is still 130 damage
and they can just run it for half a season and if she’s too weak buff another part of her kit it’s not like we haven’t been here before w/ countless other characters